Sunday, 16 July 2017

Putting Humpty Dumpty in charge of the dictionary

When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

I have a dim recollection, from some decades back, of the time the headologists declared that homosexuality was no longer to be considered a mental illness.

Instead, there was a brand-new mental illness called, if memory serves, sexual identity disorder, defined so broadly as to sweep up anyone not conforming to strict 1950s prime-time television gender-role standards.

And now? Vogon magazine thinks that a celebrity couple engaging in some minor wardrobe-swapping is an example of gender fluidity. Whatever the smeg that's supposed to be.